The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-12-09
A FANOCS DISH.
Baked Pork and Beans, New England's
Pride.

Hampshire, Mass ichusetts sDd Yer.
mont is baked beans. Ic Rhode Island
and Connecticut this article of food is
no: so common. and on New York
bill of fare II is generally conspicuous
by its absence. New Workers do not
take kindly to the dish. y man from
the E isteIn part OF the country dropped
into an eating house on Fulton street
for his midday luncheon. His eyes
giistensd with a glad surprise az be
read the notice that genuine Bos on
baked bans were ready 10 be served.
and he at once ordered that article.
But when the Cish wa. placed before
him the smile speedily vanished ami
was replaced by look of perplexiiy,
WHICH in turn gave way to one of dis
appoint ment. For the FIRST time in his
life he had met with beans baked in the
New York style. As q curiosity they
might have proved a success; but as
tar as square meal went they proved
10 be failure.
AS doubtless many are unac4Uainted
with the N-w York style OF preparing
the dish, it may be in order to give the
recipe. The beans are first parboiied
nearly 10 & mush they are then pu, IN
a shallow dish ana baked from fife en-
TO twenjy minutes in a hot oven then
they come oug white, waxy and as in
Docent Of pork Il h,vor as though they
had been cookpd with piece Of marble.
The dish is seTvei-a slice Of bIiled
pork and some beans. two items, Unie-
lated TO each other, upon one plate.
Like the American style Of serving
Toast beef aud Yorkshire pudding.
Bans are highly concentrated food.
and among the articles 80 denomInated
we find them near The head OF The lis.
Like milk, they contain ell he proper
ties necessary TO nouiIsh the whole
5ody-br,in, bone and sineas. Unlike
milk, however. they contain little, If
any carbon. The carbon must be arIi-
fjcially supplied Iy means OF The pork.
Ii cooked slowly, not IN water but in
pork fat, and until the fat not Only
forms coating about the vegetable
but completely peTmeate3 il, the result
is perfec:l l'..-Suppiy the Carbon in this
msuner and You have dish for the
gods.
In Maine. and in Maine alone, baked
beans are to be found cooked TO that
point or nicely 10 he termed perfection.
y "a rs FfS
lions and at the various river and har-
Dor s'eamboat iabdings, at the humble
boarding hoUs~s IN the city and way
SIDE tavern Of The Tlrai district. a d .sh
o: 'hs genuine aIticie" Is commonly
to be ne: with, and she glory uf The
la:e SakehoUses ara :heir Baked heans.
Every city III that State has lis bakery.
where, once week beans are baked hy
The wholesale. Z .riy Oh Sunday morn
ing the bakers cST's are TatrlIng
through the Streets surp'yiDg es~-r
cus'nm~Is with pork and beans aud
brown bread Later on, such house
hH'deTs rs failed 40 rise early enough 10
take advan' age Of this c2nvrnI=uc. GO.
tin pail in hand, to The bskeLuuse, for n
Sunday breakfast without Deans and
brow q bread is 10 breakfast Al all.
The process Of bean baking in The
lu,nbrr camps il simple. the main rsqui.
site being n roaring camp FIRE. o. Sat
uiday, as soon As tbs dinner is Cleared
away, ;he cook sc.s about preparing the
Sunday hreskfas'. The hsaDs are pick
ed oTer, washed. pu. iElo the Camp k-t-
lie with water enough to coyrr them.
and paThoiIei. They should boil nc.
longer than five minutes. Salt to the
amount of traspooEul 10 a quart water
should be added when piGbGi!!ng. to
keep The beans from mushing. After
parboiIing the water is poured IF and
the bt ans put into an ear' hen por.-A
pipce Of Fat salt pork is added, the pro-
portion being thTee- quarters of . pound
of pork for quart Of beans. salt, and
the remaining spare flIed with water.
The camp FIRE is hen iorn 10 p;eces, lhe
hugh bed 0t Goals raked away. sna the
bean pot, tightly covered. is buried IN
me uOL caEiO UtncdtU. he Cba:5 aud
embers ale then replaced. and there he
b-sI remain und disturbed unli! the fo.-
lowing morning. At break 4-L time.
Ga Sunday morning, -. as the suu
throws his first fRII rays ib-ongn the
pines, from i;:Y 10 hundred men may
De seen gathered about the smou'drring
emhers of the CAMP dre. Lpo6 ut them
aud ste i. they ars not fine, hardy
looking seS Of men chesp clothed,
dirty and grimy, some of Them, but
B. reight and staiwart, with muscles as
hard az 'he axes hey wield. The en-
hers of the camp fire are r4ked away.ihe
beaL pots torn from their warm beds
and the beans poured nut into large
naEs. Examine the beans co ,ked ia
this way and you will find them perfect
in shape, and of cnlor as rrd rs the
eartheH pot in which they were baked.
y portion of the pork separates into
small particles, and mingits with the
beans, which are not only coated. hut
delicious'y ga urstpd with sweet gravy.
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